Independence Year : 1991
Population : 4473000
Life Expectancy : 73.7
Capital : 2409
GNP : 20208.00
GNP Old : 19300.00
Local Name : Hrvatska
Government Form : Republic
Location : Croatia is situated between central and eastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea between Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Terrain : Rocky coastlines, flat plains along Hungarian border, densely wooded mountains, lakes, and rolling hills
Climate : In the north it is continental, Mediterranean along the coast, and a semi-highland and highland climate in the central region.
Ethnic Group : Croat 90%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma)
Religions : Catholic 88%, Orthodox 4.5%, Slavic Muslim 1.3%, others 6.5%
Official Website :
www.predsjednik.hr
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General Information - Croatia
Background
The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became an independent communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO.
Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands.
Under UN supervision the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
(Source: CIA - The World Factbook)
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